Bob Brody

Bob Brody is an essayist, journalist and author. He contributes personal essays and op-eds with some regularity to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and USA Today. His pieces have also appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian and, The Guardian, among many other publications, and he has written frequently for the New York Daily News and Newsday since the late 1970s. His writings focus largely on family, friends, fatherhood, marriage and domestic and community life.
Bob is the author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age – favorably reviewed in The New York Times and elsewhere – and Edge Against Cancer, profiles of 12 athletes who came back from the disease to compete again.
In his 47-year career, Bob has written everything from satire and service articles to celebrity profiles and investigative reports about physicians addicted to drugs. He has covered topics that range from health, psychology and crime to fitness, business and the physics of shooting a basketball. His work has run in such publications as Esquire, GQ, New York magazine, Men’s Health, Glamour, Reader’s Digest and – yes! – even Omni and Spy.
His blog, letterstomykids.org, calling on parents and grandparents to preserve personal family history in writing for the benefit of future generations, received kudos from The New York Times and The Washington Post and prompted interviews on “CBS This Morning” and the Fox News Network. He is currently converting the blog into a book.
Born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey, Bob graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a degree in English. Married, with two children and a granddaughter, the former long-time New York City resident now lives with his family in Southern Italy.